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Pap. Berlin P. 15694

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Pap. Berlin P. 15694
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto / Zucker, Friedrich (excavation directors)
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution partage
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1906 and 1908
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Color papyrus, light
Size (Height | Width | Thickness) 192 mm | 47 mm | mm
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The upper as well as the right part are broken off in undetermined extent. One larger hole.
Mounting framed under glass

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Upper part and all line beginnings broken off in undetermined extent.
Script, Primary Early to Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Early Demotic - Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Handwriting "Flüchtige früh- bis mitteldemotische Geschäftsschrift." (According to K.-T. Zauzich, in: VOHD XIX,2)
Comments on Text Layout Wide line pitch. The text covers nearly the entire preserved sheet, with a small but inequal left margin, and without a lower margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+17 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 40 0
Column Height (in mm) 180 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance x+40 x x+180 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title letter concerning delivery of several items
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | letter | vertical format
Summary of Content Letter concerning the delivery of several items, among them three jars of wine(?). The condition is too bad to receive detailed information on the context. It is not clear if the scribe was the sender of the letter himself.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
P_15694_R
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P_15694_V
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
220 man [///], son of Psenchonsis [///] sꜢ PꜢ-šr-Ḫnsw (not identified)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late period or Early Ptolemaic period 02 Phamenoth 30 -664 BCE -222 BCE ;

 

Pictures

P_15694_R
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P_15694_V
CC-BY-NC-SA

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 100367
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 46535
Author Jan Moje
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 100367 (= Pap. Berlin P. 15694), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje.